impossibility
- condition or quality of being impossible.
- something impossible.
Origin of impossibility
Related Words for impossibility
futility, failure, difficulty, contrariety, impracticality, unlikelihood, unreasonableness, unattainabilityExamples from the Web for impossibility
Contemporary Examples of impossibility
The smartest book ever written about the impossibility of direct communication.
But Huckabee is an impossibility because he and Romney don't like each other.
But you can write a fantastic novel about the impossibility of writing about the Holocaust.
The main reasons were the relief of the end of the war and also the impossibility to fathom the disaster.
While Justice Stephen Breyer dismissed this as an impossibility, other justices were not reassured.
Historical Examples of impossibility
By day it was dangerous enough; by night it was almost an impossibility.
The Slave Of The LampHenry Seton Merriman
I did not, at least I tried not to expect such an impossibility.
Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
That impossibility is precisely the almost universal expectation.
Pax VobiscumHenry Drummond
For what the first sentence seemed to give was next thing to an impossibility.
Pax VobiscumHenry Drummond
To the healthy, walking is a pleasure; to the sick, a burden, if not an impossibility.
The Ministry of IntercessionAndrew Murray
impossibility
- the state or quality of being impossible
- something that is impossible
Word Origin and History for impossibility
late 14c., "quality of being impossible," from impossible + -ity; perhaps from or modeled on French impossibilité. Meaning "an impossible thing or occurrence" is from c.1500.